23rd November 2013 : I noticed the links below are a mess, I’ll update them soon to reflect what’s actually available on the server for each platform

28th February 2013 : links moved to another, unfortunately slower, server and some older versions removed from downloads

HourGlass versions and download links

Windows

32-bit executables that run on 32/64 bit Windows Vista
or Windows 7 or on 32 bit Windows XP SP2/3. SSE2 capable processor required. (Very probably also works on Windows 8, 8.1 and 10, just hasn’t been tested by me.)

I haven’t really thought about that. Do you have some particular concern? It’s currently free of charge to download and use, and I have no plans to change that with version 1.0.0 or anything. While it isn’t explicitly mentioned anywhere in the download package, there’s the usual deal with software that HourGlass isn’t guaranteed to fit any particular use purpose and you must use it at your own risk. (ie, things they may occasionally break and I am not responsible for lost time and money due to that.)

The source code is closed for now, and as far as I can tell, that is compatible with the licenses of the 3rd party code libraries used.

Sorry, still can’t do anything about that. Things haven’t changed with me being able to run OS-X in any way to the porting and building work. Contact Apple and ask them to support development for OS-X without running OS-X on their hardware… 😉

Well, I have actually got it built and running under Ubuntu Linux at some point, but that was just a preliminary test just to see if it is possible at some level. (It did run and produce sound but had horrible graphics performance.) Getting a Linux build out in the public and in sync with the Windows builds unfortunately isn’t a priority, but perhaps some day it will happen…

Really great , this last version accept Usine VST now, so it’s a big step for me ( and for some of my friends too), btw do you plan to create a VST version of HourGlass..? could be one of the best and creative one on the market !

I just wanted to thanks once more (forgot if I already did) as I started to do decent sound designing and love it since I use your software, thanks really a for for doing and sharing it for free, really! All the best

Hi Xenakios,
I downloaded Hourglass latest version in my computer (mac OS X, 10.7.5) and every sound I put in, I got the almost same result. A flangy, phasy sound. am I doing something wrong? could you please help?

What results you can get out of HourGlass, depends greatly on the source audio material and settings used. The flangy/phasy result is fairly typical when close to “neutral” settings are used. (ie, not much speed or pitch changes to the original) If you don’t like that, you should aim for more extreme settings. Note that HourGlass is not intended to be a tool to subtly correct timing/pitch, it’s very much aimed for so called “sound mangling”. Can you explain me a bit more what kinds of results were you expecting?

Hey there, just wanted to drop you a note of thanks. Basically just wanted to let you know how much I love HourGlass, and how much I appreciate the work you put into it. Like the other guy asked, I would love to make a small donation to show my gratitude and to possibly help fund the development of further releases. 😉

Of the “Reaper audio processing extension plugin”? Unfortunately not, as the builds I’ve tried making of it for OS-X just don’t work. (It’s “don’t work” as in “can’t be used at all” instead of “might crash here and there”, so there’s no point to even post a preliminary build at this time…)

HourGlass? Sorry, I am not sure if that is around anywhere anymore…Are you sure I’ve posted one some time in the past? (Psssst, did you know Apple is soon already at OS-X 10.11…? 😉 )

If anyone else remembers if a OS-X 10.6 compatible build ever existed and/or happens to still have that, that’d be appreciated…Sadly, I am not sure if I am able to reproduce that build anymore with reasonable effort.

Ah hmm, was it the 1.3.0 or 1.4.0 build? The links are broken, I’ve forgot to remove those after changing my ISP. Anyway, the situation sadly could be that the .dmg files for those are not around anymore, but I could check my hard drives…

Yeah looks like ge.tt downloads no longer work. Sigh. They don’t even give any explanation whether I’ve exceeded some limit etc…Well, I have to think about some other solution then. edit : Or well…Some download links work at ge.tt, some don’t. Even more annoying.

I have tried to download both the 32 and 64 bit reaper processing extension plugins from ge.tt (via Firefox) but get the message about it containing a virus / spyware. I’m sure it doesn’t but are you aware of this issue?

Yes, those downloads regularly cause browsers and antivirus softwares to show warnings. There isn’t much I can do about that. I just tried with Firefox myself, no warning was given, so I can’t even predictably test this. The browser warnings are usually because the download hasn’t yet been “popular enough”, so they determine it is suspicious. Antivirus softwares simply have all messed up heuristics. The antivirus vendors won’t reveal how those heuristics could be bypassed. I tried asking F-Secure about that but they never replied anything to me. I am not going to bother with other companies.

You should be able to bypass the browser download prevention. The download notification should have a button which opens a menu that has something like “keep” or “download anyway”.

Digitally signing the downloads might be able to solve these false virus/spyware alarms but that would mean I would need to start charging money for everything I release…(The digital signing process costs the developer money.) Doesn’t that sound like a great idea? 😉

HI sorry – your (very quick!!) reply crossed mine. I’ve now installed. I haven’t tried it out yet as am in the middle of an editing project. Long story short, I don’t normally use Reaper but part of the project used a Soundfield mix so I needed to use a 4-track plugin to “steer” the mics in the editing process. I normally use Audition 3.0 but Reaper seemed to have everything I needed apart from pitch correction of individual mic tracks. So thank you so much for this and I’ll get around to trying (and contributing once I do!). Thank you so much for working on this and making it available. And (because I’m in the middle of a project) I haven’t yet tried this out – but looks just the job!

Mark, I am not sure what you mean by “pitch correction”, but my pitch processing plugin isn’t really designed to do subtle corrective changes of pitch. It’s more for extreme variable rate processing. You do know that Reaper itself without any external plugins has various pitch shifting/rate changing capabilities, right?

Hi Xenakios, I’m showing my ignorance here and you have picked up on it – thank you! Yes, I’m looking to pitch-correct the odd word or phrase during a take (this is a multimic vocal performance in a church). I use a similar thing in Audition where I can add a curve to pitch-correct during a sung phrase.. EDIT have had a proper look at ReaPitch and yes, that is similar to what Audition does and I think will do exactly what I’m looking for. I’m so sorry to take up your time!

Of HourGlass? (I need to sort out this downloads stuff into separate tabs here on the blog, it’s too confusing to have separate things listed here…) The latest HourGlass available here should work on Yosemite, I did actually update to Yosemite last year but forgot to update the information here. Does it not work for you on Yosemite?